jueves, 27 de febrero de 2014

Dropbox need superuser

For some reason Dropbox started asking about superuser password... However it does not need acces to other folders than user ones. It seems that there is one problem with one of the paths in its python code. Just find the path to dropbox executable:

$ which dropbox
/usr/bin/dropbox

then modify with root privileges this file.

sudo vi /usr/bin/dropbox

The incorrect line is the first of these two lines:

PARENT_DIR = os.path.expanduser("/var/lib/dropbox")

DROPBOXD_PATH = "%s/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd" % PARENT_DIR

In my case the first one needs to point to my home, then it looks like this: